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Costa (Whitbread) Book Awards: Best First Novel

The Whitbread is one of the longest-running and most prestigious book awards in the UK. Since its launch in 1971, its structure has evolved; but it has never diverted from its original ethos of identifying and celebrating some of the most enjoyable books published in the UK each year across a number of different genres.

Note: the award is now called the Costa Book Award.

(found at: http://www.costabookawards.com/awards/previous_winners.aspx)
1.
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 The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft.
by Claire Tomalin
  
2.
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 The improbable puritan: A life of Bulstrode Whitelocke, 1605-1675
by Ruth Spalding
  
3. How Far Can You Go?
by David Lodge
  
4. A Good Man in Africa: A Novel
by William Boyd
  
5. On the Black Hill
by Bruce Chatwin
  
6.
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 Flying to nowhere : a tale
by John Fuller
  
7. A Parish of Rich Women
by James Buchan
  
8. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Winterson, Jeanette)
by Jeanette Winterson
  
9. Continent
by Jim Crace
  
10.
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 Other Garden
by Francis Wyndham
  
11.
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 Comforts of Madness (Fiction - General)
by Paul Sayers
  
12. Gerontius
by James Hamilton-Paterson
  
13. The Buddha of Suburbia
by Hanif Kureishi
  
14.
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 Alma Cogan
by Gordon Burn
  
15. Swing Hammer Swing!
by Jeff Torrington
  
16. Saving Agnes: A Novel
by Rachel Cusk
  
17.
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 The Longest Memory
by Fred D'Aguiar
  
18. Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel
by Kate Atkinson
  
19. The Debt to Pleasure: A Novel
by John Lanchester
  
20. The Ventriloquist's Tale
by Pauline Melville
  
21. The Last King of Scotland
by Giles Foden
  
22. White city blue
by Tim Lott
  
23. White Teeth: A Novel
by Zadie Smith
  
24. Something Like a House
by Sid Smith
  
25. The Song of Names
by Norman Lebrecht
  
26. Vernon God Little
by DBC Pierre
  
27. Eve Green
by Susan Fletcher
  
28. The Harmony Silk Factory
by Tash Aw
  
29. The Tenderness of Wolves
by Stef Penney
  
30. What Was Lost: A Novel
by Catherine O'Flynn
  
31. The Outcast: A Novel (P.S.)
by Sadie Jones
  
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